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Thursday, April 19, 2012

5 Dinner Guests - Day 19 WEGO Health Blog

I'm participating in the WEGO Health Blog's 'Health Activist Writer's Month Challenge' where bloggers are asked to write about their conditions. The goal is to write from these 30 health related prompts for 30 days in April.

Today is day nineteen.5 Dinner Guests. Who are 5 people you'd love to have dinner with (living or deceased) and why?

5 Dinner Guests

1. My NanaShe was born in 1898. She was married in 1920 in Atlantic City, NJ. She lived through the Great Depression. Raised two little girls. One was my mother. Was married for more than 50 years. By the time I was born, she was an old woman. By the time I could have gotten to know her, she was gone.

I would love to go back and ask her about her life, her marriage, her children, everything that I didn't get to talk to her about and discuss.

2. My mother-in-lawShe passed away in 2010. And we miss her every single day. She loved her grandkids and was a riot on so many levels. I miss her spirit and her just being here with us. I want to catch her up on everything, though I think she already knows.

3. WendyMy friend Wendy passed away in 2001. Unexpectedly. She was very young. She was one of my closest friends and she passed on her birthday, which was two days after mine. I miss her friendship, her laugh and her humor.

4. JesusTrue business. I'll bet He has a lot to say. And I have a lot of questions.

5. BruceWhat do you mean, which Bruce? Bruuuuuuuuuuuuuuce. As in Springsteen. Cause we need some music with our dinner.

how you climb up the mountain is just as important as how you get down the mountain. and, so it is with life, which for many of us becomes one big gigantic test followed by one big gigantic lesson. in the end, it all comes down to one word. grace. it’s how you accept winning and losing, good luck and bad luck, the darkness and the light.